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(8×10 softcover, 2-volume set) From the Author’s Introduction: “The primary objective [of this study] is to anthologize and collate the first-ever comprehensive mythography of the Formosan deluge Myths. This includes the creation of a corpus with multiple variations of the flood myths sourced from all of Taiwan’s officially recognized tribes. [This study also] classifies the deluge myths according to narrative theme. …[It] offers a comparative exploration of the deluge texts by classifying the salient themes and motifs of the Formosan oral flood literatures. …Volume II of this work represents the first of its kind to offer hundreds of texts collected by ethnographers, linguists, missionaries, government agency-appointed investigators, and adventurers since the turn of the twentieth century.” Other Mythology Books 2010 – Werewolves, Magical Hounds, and Dog-Headed Men in Celtic Literature: A Typological Study of Shape-Shifting 2012 – Mythic Hero’s Appearance in the Twelve Seasons of Nature: His Dramatic Action in Literature and Film 2003 – Spensers Underworld in the 1590 Faerie Queene
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